NXT UK Championship

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NXT UK Championship
The current title holder Walter.
The current title holder Walter .
Data
Title holder Walter
since 5th April 2019
owner WWE
broadcast NXT UK
Introduced 15th January 2017
Former names
  • WWE United Kingdom Championship
    (2017-2020)
Records
Most title wins Tyler Bate (1 time)
Longest reign Pete Dunne (685 days)
Shortest reign Tyler Bate (125 days)
Oldest title holder Walter (31 years and 228 days)
Youngest title holder Tyler Bate (19 years and 314 days)
Heaviest title holder Walter (141 kilograms)
Easiest title holder Tyler Bate (79 kilograms)

The NXT UK Championship is the highest wrestling title that the US promotion WWE awards to male individual wrestlers of the NXT UK rooster. The title was launched on January 15, 2017. The current title holder in his first reign is Walter . As is common in wrestling, the award is based on a previously determined storyline.

history

On December 15, 2016, the WWE announced at a press conference in London that it wanted to create a new title with the WWE United Kingdom Championship . This will be awarded for the first time at a two-day tournament on January 14 and 15, 2017 in Blackpool , which will be broadcast live on the WWE Network .

By winning the first WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament , in which a total of 16 wrestlers took part, Tyler Bate was the first to win the WWE United Kingdom Championship . In the final he defeated it Pete Dunne . Dunne himself became the second title holder on NXT TakeOver: Chicago 125 days later . Only after almost two years of reign was Dunne, who was beaten by Walter in his first title match on NXT, NXT TakeOver: New York . Walter became the first non-British WWE United Kingdom Champion .

List of title holders

  • Current title holder
    • # Title holder Title change statistics annotation
    date event place Number Days
    1 Tyler Bate 15th January 2017 United Kingdom Championship Tournament Blackpool , England 1 125 Won a 16-man tournament for the newly created title
    2 Pete Dunne 20th May 2017 TakeOver: Chicago Chicago , Illinois 1 685
    3 Walter 5th April 2019 TakeOver: New York Brooklyn , New York 1 0515+

    statistics

  • Current title holder
    • space Surname number Days in total
    01 Pete Dunne 01 685
    02 Walter 01 0515+
    03 Tyler Bate 01 125

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ WWE announces tournament to crown first UK Champion (English). Tweed Daily News, December 16, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017.
    2. ↑ WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament - Day 2 cagematch.de, accessed on February 4, 2017.
    3. ↑ Sport1.de: WWE NXT TakeOver before WrestleMania 35: WALTER, Gargano crown themselves. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

    Web links

    Commons : NXT UK Champions  - Collection of Images